If you have not already checked out the coverage of Spanish, Japanese and Australian Nationals for fresh from the oven M10 Standard tech, you should do so right now. The Elvish Archdruid-powered Combo deck took the top spot in Australia and dominated the Japanese event with three Top 8 finishes although Shuhei Nakamura hoisted the trophy with Cruel Control. Cruel Control also won Spanish Nationals with nary an Elf Combo deck to be found in the elimination rounds.

Based on a handful of Twitter comments it sounds like a lot of American players are gnashing their teeth right now over the tremendous performance of the Elves Combo deck. It would have been a great deck to have in your back pocket going into US Nationals but now everyone will either be playing it or have a firm plan for playing against it. Osyp, who ended up making the finals of a massive PTQ in Edison, NJ, compared the raw power of the deck to that of Affinity. How people prepare for and with the deck will be one of the dominant storylines next weekend as Bill Stark and I cover Nats in KC.

The 2009 Singapore National team

In the meanwhile I have the Top 8 decklists from Singapore Nationals which featured some interesting non-Elf concoctions including a Sanity Grinding/Time Warp deck by Pro Tour Barcelona Top 8 competitor Albertus Law. He went 6-0 in the Swiss rounds of Standard, including multiple victories over Kithkin, but fell to one of the two Kithkin finalists in the quarterfinals. The other really interesting deck was the 5Color deck featuring Brion Stoutarm that ended up earning a spot on the National team. Thanks to Jun-Wei Hew for the decklists and the photo of the team! (Decklists appear below the fold. Click to keep on reading!)

Kithkin
Khoo Aik Seng – Champion
2009 Singapore National Championship

4 Cloudgoat Ranger
4 Figure of Destiny
4 Goldmeadow Stalwart
4 Knight of Meadowgrain
4 Wizened Cenn
4 Honor of the Pure
4 Path to Exile
4 Spectral Procession
3 Ajani Goldmane
19 Plains
2 Rustic Clachan
4 Windbrisk Heights

Sideboard:
4 Burrenton Forge-Tender
4 Ethersworn Canonist
4 Stillmoon Cavalier
3 Unmake

Kithkin
Lim Teng Chi – National Team Member
2009 Singapore National Championship

4 Cloudgoat Ranger
4 Figure of Destiny
4 Goldmeadow Stalwart
4 Knight of Meadowgrain
4 Wizened Cenn
4 Honor of the Pure
4 Path to Exile
4 Spectral Procession
3 Ajani Goldmane
19 Plains
2 Rustic Clachan
4 Windbrisk Heights

Sideboard:
4 Burrenton Forge-Tender
4 Ethersworn Canonist
2 Rise of the Hobgoblins
2 Stillmoon Cavalier
3 Unmake

5Color Stoutarm
Chapman Sim – National Team Member
2009 Singapore National Championship

4 Baneslayer Angel
4 Bloodbraid Elf
3 Brion Stoutarm
2 Broodmate Dragon
4 Kitchen Finks
3 Bituminous Blast
2 Cruel Ultimatum
4 Cryptic Command
3 Maelstorm Pulse
3 Path to Exile
3 Volcanic Fallout
1 Cascade Bluffs
1 Exotic Orchard
1 Fetid Heath
1 Fire-Lit Thicket
1 Island
1 Mountain
2 Mystic Gate
4 Reflecting Pool
1 Rugged Prairie
1 Sunken Ruins
1 Swamp
1 Twilight Mire
2 Vivid Crag
2 Vivid Creek
2 Vivid Grove
2 Vivid Marsh
2 Vivid Meadow

Sideboard:
4 Anathemancer
2 Austere Command
3 Banefire
3 Hallowed Burial
2 Puppeteer Clique
1 Volcanic Fallout

Naya Beats
Ernest Lim – Alternate Team Member
2009 Singapore National Championship

4 Bloodbraid Elf
4 Boggart Ram-Gang
2 Chameleon Colossus
3 Kitchen Finks
2 Llanowar Elves
4 Noble Hierarch
3 Wilt-Leaf Liege
4 Wren’s Run Vanquisher
4 Colossal Might
4 Lightning Bolt
4 Puncture Blast
4 Fire-Lit Thicket
10 Forest
4 Mountain
4 Rootbound Crag

Sideboard:
3 Chaotic Backlash
4 Great Sable-Stag
2 Guttural Response
3 Manabarbs
3 Snakeform

Faeries
Neo Hong Zhi — Top 8
2009 Singapore National Championship

4 Mistbild Clique
4 Scion of Oona
1 Sower of Temptation
4 Spellstutter Sprite
3 Agony Warp
4 Bitterblossom
3 Broken Ambitions
4 Cryptic Command
2 Doom Blade
2 Peppersmoke
2 Thoughtseize
2 Jace Beleren
4 Drowned Catacomb
6 Island
4 Mutavault
4 Secluded Glen
4 Sunken Ruins
3 Swamp

Sideboard:
1 Broken Ambitions
3 Deathmark
2 Duress
3 Flashfreeze
2 Plumeveil
2 Sower of Temptation
2 Thoughtseize

5Color Blood
Ng Soon Lye – Top 8
2009 Singapore National Championship

4 Bloodbraid Elf
2 Enlisted Wurm
4 Kitchen Finks
4 Putrid Leech
2 Uril, the Miststalker
3 Bituminous Blast
2 Cruel Ultimatum
4 Cryptic Command
3 Maelstorm Pulse
3 Path to Exile
3 Volcanic Fallout
2 Cascade Bluffs
1 Exotic Orchard
2 Flooded Grove
1 Forest
1 Mountain
4 Reflecting Pool
1 Sunken Ruins
1 Swamp
2 Twilight Mire
3 Vivid Crag
4 Vivid Grove
4 Vivid Marsh

Sideboard:
4 Anathemancer
2 Ajani Vengeant
4 Great Sable Stag
1 Hallowed Burial
1 Maelstrom Pulse
3 Thought Hemorrhage

Grinding Time
Albertus Law – Top 8
2009 Singapore National Championship

4 Plumeveil
3 Broken Ambition
4 Cryptic Command
4 Dream Fracture
4 Sanity Grinding
4 Sleep
4 Time Warp
4 Twincast
4 Jace Beleren
21 Island
4 Shelldock Isle

Sideboard:
4 Flashfreeze
3 Oona, Queen of the Fae
1 Traumatize
3 Vendillion Clique
4 Wall of Frost

Naya Beats
Ong Kok Seng – Top 8
2009 Singapore National Championship

4 Bloodbraid Elf
4 Boggart Ram-Gang
3 Chameleon Colossus
3 Kitchen Finks
2 Llanowar Elves
4 Noble Hierarch
2 Wilt-Leaf Liege
4 Wren’s Run Vanquisher
4 Colossal Might
4 Lightning Bolt
4 Puncture Blast
4 Fire-Lit Thicket
11 Forest
4 Mountain
4 Rootbound Crag

Sideboard:
3 Chaotic Backlash
3 Great Sable-Stag
3 Guttural Response
3 Manabarbs
3 Snakeform